Description of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 22: Castle Hours # 5, Use of Paris contributor Marianne Hansen cataloger Dot Porter cataloger Erin Connelly Council on Library and Information Resources Bryn Mawr College Library These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 22: Castle Hours # 5, Use of Paris are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Bryn Mawr College Library MS 22: Castle Hours # 5, Use of Paris. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. All full-page miniatures missing; for many sections, text breaks off or begins imperfectly Collation not possible due to number of missing leaves and fragile condition United States Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Library MS 22 http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms22.shtml This is a French book of hours from the second quarter of the fifteenth century. All the full-page miniatures have been excised and many sections of the text break off or begin imperfectly. The manuscript includes: a hymn, Ave verum, written in a later hand; a Calendar of Paris, in French; the Gospel Lessons and the Passion of Saint John; Prayers (Obsecro te and O Intemerata); the Hours of the Virgin; the Short Hours of the Cross; and the Office of the Dead. There are two three- line illuminated initials with penwork extensions and two-and one-line illuminated initials with penwork extensions throughout. Much of the gold on the text has worn off and the inks have faded and are smeared throughout. The name "M. DeVilleroy" and "Villeroy" occurs on the top or bottom margin in ink on several leaves throughout the text in a later hand. Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) Castle Hours # 5, Use of Paris former owner Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer 1r Hymn Ave verum 2r Calendar of Paris, in French 12v Gospel Lesson and Passion of Saint John 19r Prayers 27r Hours of the Virgin 62r Short Hours of the Cross 65r Office of the Dead

Parchment

 vi+96+vi; 181 x 117 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Structure uncertain

 Single column, fifteen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; written area: 95 x 58 mm Calendar four columns, seventeen lines, double ruled for vertical divisions Gothic -- textualis quadrata Two three- line illuminated initials with penwork extensions and two-and one-line illuminated initials with penwork extensions throughout; rubrications in red; much of the gold worn off and inks faded and smeared throughout Inside front coverBookplate: "Ex-libris CP" [Flyleaf 2 recto]In ink: "Offert par M. Long Depaquit" 1rIn ink, in a later hand: ""Villeroy / Jacques" 2rIn ink in lower margin: "M. DeVilleroy" 9rUpper margin cut out 9vUpper margin cut out 9vIn ink, vertical, in lower margin: "Villeroy 1755" 10vIn ink, vertical, in lower margin: "Villeroy" 12vIlluminated initial P 12vIlluminated initial E 13rIlluminated initial I 14vIlluminated initial I 16rIlluminated initial I 17rIlluminated initial I 18vIlluminated initial D 19rThree-line illuminated initial O 23rIlluminated initial O 27rIlluminated initial C 27vIlluminated initial O 28vIlluminated initial E 30vIlluminated initial D 31vIlluminated initial F 33rIlluminated initial S 33vIlluminated initial S 34rIlluminated initial S 35rIlluminated initial C 36vIlluminated initial D 37vIlluminated initial C 39rIlluminated initial O 42rIlluminated initial I 42vIlluminated initial D 44rIlluminated initial D 44vIlluminated initial B 45rIn ink, in lower margin: "Villeroy" 46rIn ink, vertical, in lower margin: "Villeroy" 46vIlluminated initial L 47vIlluminated initial L 48rIlluminated initial U 48vIlluminated initial U 49rIlluminated initial B 50vIlluminated initial D (x2) 51rIlluminated initial B 52rIlluminated initial Q 53rIlluminated initial U 54rIlluminated initial N 55rIlluminated initial B 55vIlluminated initial P 56rIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 56vIlluminated initial M 57vIlluminated initial D (x2) 58rIlluminated initial S 59rIlluminated initial D 59vIlluminated initial U 60rIlluminated initial S 60rIlluminated initial N 60vIlluminated initial U 61rIlluminated initial G 61rIlluminated initial E 62rIlluminated initial D 62vIlluminated initial H 63rIlluminated initial C 63vIlluminated initial H 64rIlluminated initial H 64vIlluminated initial D 65vIlluminated initial I 66rIlluminated initial L 67rThree-line illuminated initial I 67rIlluminated initial D 67vIlluminated initial D 68rIlluminated initial A 68vIlluminated initial U 70rIlluminated initial D 71rIlluminated initial D 73rIlluminated initial P 74rIlluminated initial U 75rIlluminated initial M 75vIlluminated initial D 76rOuter margin torn off 76vOuter margin torn off 78vIlluminated initial D 80vIlluminated initial B 81vIlluminated initial H 82vIlluminated initial Q 83rIlluminated initial E 83vIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 84rIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 84vIlluminated initial E 85vIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 86rIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 86vIlluminated initial Q 88vIlluminated initial S 89vIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 89vIlluminated initial P 90rIn ink, in upper margin: "Villeroy" 90vIlluminated initial Q 92vIlluminated initial M 94vIlluminated initial U 96rIlluminated initial D

Eighteenth-century gold-tooled, acid-stained calf; on spine in gold: "Heures"

Second quarter 15th century

France Written in the Paris/Rouen region of France in about 1430; early provenance unknown; the name "M. DeVilleroy," and "Villeroy," occur in the top or the bottom margin on several leaves throughout the text in a later hand; on fol. 1r: "Villeroy / Jacques," on 9v: "Villeroy 1755"; on fol. ii recto in a modern hand: "Offert par M. Long Depaquit." Bookplate: "Ex libris CP"; in the collection of Ethelinda Schaefer Castle of Hawaii, and given by bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1971 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Book of Hours 15th century France French Damage Illumination Devotion Books of hours